Restoration in Russia Why Capitalism Failed

by Kagarlitsky, Boris

• ISBN13: 9781859840726
• ISBN10: 1859840728
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-07-17
• Publisher: VERSO

Summary

It supplies an account of the former Politburo member, Boris Yeltsin - his rise to the presidency and the rifts with his parliamentary opponents, which led to the attack on the Russian White House on October 1993. There are portraits of Gavril Popov, the former mayor of Moscow and Vladimir Zhironovsky, the ultra-nationalist demagogue. The book provides analysis of the new Russia and its attempts to develop modern capitalism.

Author Biography

Boris Kagarlitsky is the author of The Thinking Reed, The Dialectic of Hope, and The Mirage of Modernisation. He has been arrested twice for his activism, once in 1982 under Brezhnev, and in 1993 under Yeltsin.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(6)
The Power	7	(34)
The Defeat of the Dissidents	8	(5)
The Corridors of Power	13	(11)
Symbols	24	(5)
Propaganda	29	(12)
Heroes	41	(34)
Gavriil Popov: Portrait against a Background of Ruins	41	(8)
`The People's President'	49	(13)
Zhirinovsky: The Favourite Anti-Hero	62	(13)
Crisis	75	(18)
The New State	75	(8)
Catastrophe as an Economic Model	83	(10)
The People	93	(31)
The People of the Crowd	93	(4)
The People of the Myths	97	(3)
The Russian Hamlet	100	(2)
Voters	102	(3)
Freeloaders	105	(9)
Intellectuals	114	(5)
The New Pragmatists	119	(5)
The Opposition	124	(35)
The Irreconcilables	124	(9)
Centrism?	133	(4)
Trade Unions	137	(10)
The Left in Search of Itself	147	(12)
Epilogue: The Titanic Effect	159